Neil Warnock: Let’s have some fun at Aberdeen | ‘I always wanted to manage in Scotland’

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Neil Warnock has been appointed as Aberdeen interim manager until the end of the season.

The 75-year-old returns to professional football once again after leaving Huddersfield in September, with the Dons his 17th different club in British football, but his first in Scotland.

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You finally made it to Scotland how does it feel taking on this challenge it’s been a it’s been a long time I’ve always wanted to manage up here and uh you know I’ve got a place at du and I’ve always had a place down there and my club’s GRE

Morton you know I’ve got bricks there with a family’s name on there we Greeno so I’ve always like enjoying going to watch a game there and um it just come out the I mean it not come out the blue but it was just something you know when

You get to May age it’s uh you know it’s you think twice and you I’ve that many retirements aren’t you so it’s uh but it it just I just think you know when I spoke to Dave um kak and and Allan it just seemed the right thing to do really

They they gives them a little bit of time to take the time looking for the right one for the manager that’s going to take the club forward and also as I said to him you know let’s have a little bit of fun between now and the end of

The season as well you know it’s uh I like to put smiles on people’s faces and the abedine fans I’ve always thought I applied for the job once many years ago and I never even got a reply which I felt let down really if I’m honest at

The time are you with me and I I used that a little bit to motivate myself um cuz I right I’ll show them what they’re missing you know and I managed to get promotion that following year so it was uh um it’s one of those things that it’s you know it’s a big

Club uh and the kind of fans that they’ve got I I relate to that type of fans you know when you look at QPR and Crystal Palace the fans are you know um if I say hostile I don’t mean that in a nasty way but it it’s lovely to get fans

Behind the team and and um and supporting the team and uh you know one a one Club City it’s it’s a real good challenge and uh I know it’s a long way you know Sharon my wife said abine but it’s not for the money I mean i’

I’ve had some good offers in the last 6 eight weeks and um you know it’s it’s just I’d like to have a go at um in this league and I’d like to have a go with a a club like this yes I can’t change the squad uh because you know the windows

Closed now um it probably is a little bit light in certain areas um but I’m not going to worry about that it’s just do what I can do with what we’ve got and and like I say try and enjoy it and I was going to

Start next week but you know the the the L lure of taking over for a game like tomorrow night is you know is too good really and I’ve always had good fun we you know when I worked on talk Sport with alen Brazil and Al Ali mcco is very

Nice I’m a good fan of Ali so we have always taken the side of that you know because of Ali Alan Brazil really with his Celtic Connections in there but uh you know I’ll be I’ll be hoping that we can get a victory tomorrow night as

Always you know I’ve always once I’m in a club I’m in the Lock Stock and Barrel and and we you know move on when you took over at Huddersfield they were obviously in disarray you needed to save them this is a bit different is it more looking up rather than what’s behind

It’s kicking on now um I mean the thing is um I don’t I don’t worry about when I do take over there’s a reason when I mean I never take over anything that’s flying or taking you know top of the lead and um and it’s it’s a it’s a club that

There there is Ambitions uh and all I can do is my best I can’t guarantee anything um but I I want to pick my wits against the team that we come up against between now and the end of the season and there’s a lot to play for League

Wise cup- Wise I’d like to win a cup I’ve not won a cup got to the semi-finals a couple of times and got done with referees but we’re not going to that um so it’s you know it’s a it’s it’s a good challenge for me you know I

Think it’s um you know I used to call it a bunch of nettles you know that’s that type of thing here I think you know I think abedine is an ideal place for me Neil have you been Have You Been closely following Scottish Football you talked about your kind of links to

Scotland but is it have you been following it from AF far during your your career and what do you make of it cuz sometimes in England we get the feeling up here that Scottish football’s kind of look down por a little bit I think you’ll always get that won’t

You with English we’re we’re we’re a bit arrogant aren’t we when he looks to that I mean I I don’t think there’s anything better than we love coming up to Scotland Sharon and the two kids and um I just wish I played golf but my son

Does so I’m going to carry for him when he comes up and uh it it’s um I mean no good you know Celtic and and and Rangers have have really done really well hasn’t it but I think it’s nice to be an underdog and trying to

Um um come up against these teams and try and you know do well I mean I’m obviously I’m only having one session today if we get battered tomorrow it’s Peter’s fault all right if we do well it’s I’m I’m very influential on the on the result okay so keep that up your

Sleeve Lads will one thing you um I think you would have seen from from the weekends G if you managed to look back against Celtic it’s what Alex bergson did was he didn’t take any nonsense and can of changed the mentality of the provincial clubs like outside of the old

FM and got his team going to Glasgow to win a proved that they can do that already this season so you’ve got the building blocks here yeah I think I think you’d be surprised you know I get called a dinosaur and all sorts of names U some I

Can’t replete um but in my career as a football manager from start to finish um nothing’s changed in the fact that to be successful in management 90 to 95% is man management you can have all the diplomas and all the coaching stics and everything you

Know and uh and you know youve got you want to try and win games and and so I don’t think anything’s changed from when I first started to now yeah you’ve had to move on you know Wenger changed the whole concept really by bringing all the nutritions and the IT people and you

Know you name it and a lot of clubs are driven with stats now aren’t they Etc um I like judging things with my own eyes and and having a look so I I’m really I know it sounds silly but at my age but I’m quite excited that’s how I am that’s

Why I still I do you know come back and uh why why I get to grips of things I like like I said I like making people smile I like um going into a club and and and meeting everybody really I like I like all the staff from everywhere you

Know the Cooks I’ve just met the cooks they’re very important to me cuz I’m you know I’m quite hungry at times um so it’s a it’s a it’s a it’s a pleasing thing and I think it’s it’s good we can have a you know we can have a couple of

Months now two or three months and you know there’s no see the only pressure on me is I want to win are you with me I I don’t um I can’t see me getting the sack in in four months you know so I’ve got

To try and enjoy it and try and make the fans enjoy it and I think you know um looking at the fans comments you know there’s 50% want me and 50% don’t so I’ve got to convin the convince the other 50% well enjoy the themselves while I’m here